Iannis Xenakis, in Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, p. 132.
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Thus the musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
— Iannis Xenakis on Symmetry
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About Iannis Xenakis
Iannix Xenakis (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer and architect and major contributor to musical modernism.
About Iannis Xenakis
Iannix Xenakis (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer and architect and major contributor to musical modernism.
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